Correlation between number of ferroelectric variants and coercive field of lead ziconate titanate single crystals

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Choudhury, S ^a   Chen, L Q ^a   Li, Y L ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COERCIVE FIELDS; MICROELASTICITY; PHENOMENOLOGICAL THERMODYNAMIC THEORY; STRUCTURAL INHOMOGENEITIES;

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ELECTROSTATICS; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; LEAD COMPOUNDS;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

EID: 34547222418     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2759274     Document Type: Article

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